Week 3 / Winter Roll-stice is grating me / a small rant
So far since early access, the challenges have been a perfect balance. Most i can do in a few attempts and a select few take maybe 10-20 minutes of trying. Which is the perfect balance.
But this new update is just frustrating more than it is fun.
Firstly, the market mile community park / challenges... I can't even get to the line challenge thats positioned below the park itself. I want to play a skate game, not some elaborate parkour map which leads to me stuck in the water 10 times. So I tried the other challenge at market mile... and it just makes no sense? You can't visulise the route because the arrows and ramps are all over the place. I've got a degree in design, so UI and visual guidance is something I'm very good at understanding. But I'm having a hard time with it, so i'd hate to know how some of the other players are experiencing it.
So then I tried the regular season trix challenges. and they seem to have turned up the difficulty 10-fold. It's way above the balance of challenging but fun. It's just frustrating and unenjoyable. Some of them are slightly easier, but the game still has this bug of registering tricks. I landed the "flip trick to grind to flip trick" probably 8 times but the game only registered 4. Meaning i failed the challenge... However, I wouldn't have failed if it didn't have a short time limit of 3 minutes.
I wouldn't call myself insanely skilled (i have no desire doing across the map lines etc) but I would say i'm average/above. So challenges shouldn't feel like this. Like i said in the beginning, it should be a balance between some easy, some taking a few attempts and maybe the odd one taking 10-20 minutes.
What makes this even worse, is the rewards from challenges are minimal, and have been nerfed. If you're going to reduce rewards, the difficulity should be reduced too. Not increased. Otherwise there is no sense of reward / progress. An hour of challenge gameplay should produce decent unlocks, not pocket change in currency.
And as a solo player... I have absolutely no desire to find a party for the "in a party" and own the lot challenges. It wouldn't be so bad if you could matchmake and have the game find a party / session for you. But i'm losing out on seasonal rewards because my play-style is being punished.
I understand the devs probably get a list of what to do from the publishers, but boy the publishers really are good at pushing players away from potentially brilliant games.
TLDR
Design parks / challenges better. The standard has dropped big-time.
No time limits. PLEASE
Think about difficulty. The game needs to be challenging but fun. Not frustrating with no fun.
No "in a party" or "own the lot" style gamemodes PLEASE.
